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How Does a Mouse’s Visual Cortex “See” the World?
One of the more remarkable talents of the mammalian brain is its ability to convert photons from visual scenes into interpretable patterns of neural signals in the visual cortex. The rules of this conversion of information have been well s… More
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Wisdom of the Crowd? Building Better Forecasts from Suboptimal Predictors
Researchers at the University of Tokyo and Kozo Keikaku Engineering Inc. have introduced a method for enhancing the power of existing algorithms to forecast the future of unknown time series. By combining the predictions of many subopti… More
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Untangling Psychiatric Disorders with Brain Structural Imaging
Psychiatric disorders are usually diagnosed by observations of clinical symptoms over time. These symptoms may be specific to a particular psychiatric disorder, or common across one or more other disorders. Could disease-unique and c… More
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Scientists identify protein that promotes brain metastasis
A protein that breast, lung and other cancers use to promote their spread – or metastasis – to the brain, has been identified by a team led by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators.
The protein, CEMIP, will now be a f… More
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Pupil dilation and heart rate, analyzed by AI, may offer early autism diagnosis
(Credit: Pietro Artoni/Boston Children's Hospital)
Autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders often aren’t diagnosed until a child is a few years of age, when behavioral interventions and speech/occupational therapy become les… More
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A Mathematical Theory for Disease Prediction
The clinical diagnosis of a disease is based on a doctor’s assessment after seeing a patient’s overt symptoms and running confirmatory laboratory tests. However, the development of a disease obviously begins far earlier and novel metho… More
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A Suite of Multicolor Calcium Sensors for Reading Fast Neuronal Circuit Dynamics
Calcium sensors are among the most effective tools to examine how living neurons behave. Genetically encoded calcium indicators (GECIs) are one type of sensor that when combined with live imaging techniques have become a key tool to unde… More
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Study Shows How Ketamine Reverses Depression—and How its Benefits Could Be Extended
The powerful but temporary benefits of ketamine against depression might be extended if the new brain-cell connections it promotes could be preserved, according to a new study published April 12 in Science from researchers at Weill Corn… More
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Teaching AI to Improve Visual Recognition
How do we recognize an image with our brain? We, human beings, are able to distinguish a rose from a camellia at brief sight, while a cat can trace a bug flying and immediately catch it. During the process of visual recognition, many neurons lo… More
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How the antidepressant ketamine rapidly awakens the brain, and why its effects vary more in women
(CREDIT: NATHALIE PICARD / BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL)
In small doses, the anesthetic ketamine is a mildly hallucinogenic party drug known as “Special K.” In even smaller doses, ketamine relieves depression — abruptly and sometimes dr… More
